UNIT 731 Documentary | Japanese Invasion of China | Second Sino-Japanese War | 1937-45 - YouTube UNIT 731 Documentary | Japanese Invasion of China | Second Sino-Japanese War | 1937-45 Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Feb 25, 2015 UNIT 731 Documentary | Japanese Invasion of China | Second Sino-Japanese War | 1937-45 | WW2 Unit 731 (731部隊 Nana-san-ichi butai, Chinese: 731部队) was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II. It was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes carried out by Japanese personnel.

Unit 731 was based at the Pingfang district of Harbin, the largest city in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (now Northeast China). It was officially known as the Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the Kwantung Army (関東軍防疫給水部本部 Kantōgun Bōeki Kyūsuibu Honbu). Originally set up under the Kempeitai military police of the Empire of Japan, Unit 731 was taken over and commanded until the end of the war by General Shiro Ishii, an officer in the Kwantung Army. The facility itself was built between 1934 and 1939 and officially adopted the name "Unit 731" in 1941. Between 3,000 and 12,000 men, women, and children - from which around 600 every year were provided by the Kempeitai - died during the human experimentation conducted by Unit 731 at the camp based in Pingfang alone, which does not include victims from other medical experimentation sites.

Almost 70% of the victims who died in the Pingfang camp were Chinese, including both civilian and military. Close to 30% of the victims were Russian. Some others were South East Asians and Pacific Islanders, at the time colonies of the Empire of Japan, and a small number of Allied prisoners of war. The unit received generous support from the Japanese government up to the end of the war in 1945. Many of the researchers involved in Unit 731 went on to prominent careers in post-war politics, academia, business, and medicine. Some were arrested by Soviet forces and tried at the Khabarovsk War Crime Trials in 1949; most remained under American Forces occupation. These researchers were not tried for war crimes by the Americans so that the information and experience gained in bio-weapons could be co-opted into the U.S. biological warfare program.

On 6 May 1947, Douglas MacArthur, as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, wrote to Washington that "additional data, possibly some statements from Ishii probably can be obtained by informing Japanese involved that information will be retained in intelligence channels and will not be employed as 'War Crimes' evidence." The immunity deal concluded in 1948. Category Unit 731 Facility - ROBLOX Unit 731 Facility Servers Description Unit 731 (Japanese: 731部隊 Hepburn: Nana-san-ichi Butai) was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) of World War II. It was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes carried out by Japan. Unit 731 was based at the Pingfang district of Harbin, the largest city in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (now Northeast China).

It was officially known as the Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the Kwantung Army (関東軍防疫給水部本部 Kantōgun Bōeki Kyūsuibu Honbu). Originally set up under the Kempeitai military police of the Empire of Japan, Unit 731 was taken over and commanded until the end of the war by General Shiro Ishii, an officer in the Kwantung Army. The facility itself was built between 1934 and 1939 and officially adopted the name "Unit 731" in 1941. Visits Top 10 Evil Human Experiments - Listverse Top 10 Evil Human Experiments Jamie Frater March 14, 2008 [WARNING] This list contains descriptions and images of human experimentation which may cause offense to some readers.] Human experimentation and research ethics evolved over time. On occasion, the subjects of human experimentation have been prisoners, slaves, or even family members. In some notable cases, doctors have performed experiments on themselves when they have been unwilling to risk the lives of others. This is known as self-experimentation.

This is a list of the 10 most evil and unethical experiments carried out on humans. 10 Stanford Prison Experiment The Stanford prison experiment was a psychological study of human responses to captivity and its behavioral effects on both authorities and inmates in prison. The experiment was conducted in 1971 by a team of researchers led by psychologist Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University. Undergraduate volunteers played the roles of both guards and prisoners living in a mock prison in the basement of the Stanford psychology building. Prisoners and guards rapidly adapted to their roles, stepping beyond the boundaries of what had been predicted and leading to dangerous and psychologically damaging situations. One-third of the guards were judged to have exhibited “genuine” sadistic tendencies, while many prisoners were emotionally traumatized and two had to be removed from the experiment early. Finally, Zimbardo, alarmed at the increasingly abusive anti-social behavior from his subjects, terminated the entire experiment early. Want more evil? Look no further than the horrifying accounts described in Doctors From Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans at Amazon.com!

9 The Monster Study The Monster Study was a stuttering experiment on 22 orphan children in Davenport, Iowa, in 1939 conducted by Wendell Johnson at the University of Iowa. Johnson chose one of his graduate students, Mary Tudor, to conduct the experiment and he supervised her research. After placing the children in control and experimental groups, Tudor gave positive speech therapy to half of the children, praising the fluency of their speech, and negative speech therapy to the other half, belittling the children for every speech imperfection and telling them they were stutterers. Many of the normal speaking orphan children who received negative therapy in the experiment suffered negative psychological effects and some retained speech problems during the course of their life. Dubbed “The Monster Study” by some of Johnson’s peers who were horrified that he would experiment on orphan children to prove a theory, the experiment was kept hidden for fear Johnson’s reputation would be tarnished in the wake of human experiments conducted by the Nazis during World War II. The University of Iowa publicly apologized for the Monster Study in 2001.

8 Project 4.1 Project 4.1 was the designation for a medical study conducted by the United States of those residents of the Marshall Islands exposed to radioactive fallout from the March 1, 1954 Castle Bravo nuclear test at Bikini Atoll, which had an unexpectedly large yield. For the first decade after the test, the effects were ambiguous and statistically difficult to correlate to radiation exposure: miscarriages and stillbirths among exposed Rongelap women doubled in the first five years after the accident, but then returned to normal; some developmental difficulties and impaired growth appeared in children, but in no clear-cut pattern. In the decades that followed, though, the effects were undeniable. Children began to suffer disproportionately from thyroid cancer (due to exposure to radioiodines), and almost a third of those exposed developed neoplasms by 1974.

As a Department of Energy Committee writing on the human radiation experiments wrote, “It appears to have been almost immediately apparent to the AEC and the Joint Task Force running the Castle series that research on radiation effects could be done in conjunction with the medical treatment of the exposed populations.” The DOE report also concluded that “The dual purpose of what is now a DOE medical program has led to a view by the Marshallese that they were being used as ‘guinea pigs’ in a ‘radiation experiment.'” 7 Project MKULTRA Project MKULTRA, or MK-ULTRA, was the code name for a CIA mind-control research program, run by the Office of Scientific Intelligence, that began in the early 1950s and continued at least through the late 1960s. There is much published evidence that the project involved the surreptitious use of many types of drugs, as well as other methodologies, to manipulate individual mental states and to alter brain function. Experiments included administering LSD to CIA employees, military personnel, doctors, other government agents, prostitutes, mentally ill patients, and members of the general public in order to study their reactions.

LSD and other drugs were usually administered without the subject’s knowledge and informed consent, a violation of the Nuremberg Code that the U.S. agreed to follow after WWII. Efforts to “recruit” subjects were often illegal, even discounting the fact that drugs were being administered (though actual use of LSD, for example, was legal in the United States until October 6, 1966). In Operation Midnight Climax, the CIA set up several brothels to obtain a selection of men who would be too embarrassed to talk about the events. The men were dosed with LSD, and the brothels were equipped with one-way mirrors and the “sessions” were filmed for later viewing and study. In 1973, CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MKULTRA files destroyed. Pursuant to this order, most CIA documents regarding the project were destroyed, making a full investigation of MKULTRA virtually impossible. 6 The Aversion Project South Africa’s apartheid army forced white lesbian and gay soldiers to undergo ‘sex-change’ operations in the 1970’s and the 1980’s, and submitted many to chemical castration, electric shock, and other unethical medical experiments.

Although the exact number is not known, former apartheid army surgeons estimate that as many as 900 forced ‘sexual reassignment’ operations may have been performed between 1971 and 1989 at military hospitals, as part of a top-secret program to root out homosexuality from the service. Army psychiatrists aided by chaplains aggressively ferreted out suspected homosexuals from the armed forces, sending them discretely to military psychiatric units, chiefly ward 22 of 1 Military Hospital at Voortrekkerhoogte, near Pretoria. Those who could not be ‘cured’ with drugs, aversion shock therapy, hormone treatment, and other radical ‘psychiatric’ means were chemically castrated or given sex-change operations. Although several cases of lesbian soldiers abused have been documented so far—including one botched sex-change operation—most of the victims appear to have been young, 16 to 24-year-old white males drafted into the apartheid army. Dr. Aubrey Levin (the head of the study) is now Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry (Forensic Division) at the University of Calgary’s Medical School.

He is also in private practice, as a member in good standing of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta. 5 North Korean Experimentation There have been many reports of North Korean human experimentation. These reports show human rights abuses similar to those of Nazi and Japanese human experimentation in World War II. These allegations of human rights abuses are denied by the North Korean government, who claim that all prisoners in North Korea are humanely treated. One former North Korean woman prisoner tells how 50 healthy women prisoners were selected and given poisoned cabbage leaves, which all the women had to eat despite cries of distress from those who had already eaten. All 50 were dead after 20 minutes of vomiting blood and anal bleeding. Refusing to eat would have meant reprisals against them and their families. Kwon Hyok, a former prison Head of Security at Camp 22, described laboratories equipped respectively for poison gas, suffocation gas and blood experiments, in which 3 or 4 people, normally a family, are the experimental subjects. After undergoing medical checks, the chambers are sealed and poison is injected through a tube, while “scientists” observe from above through glass.

Kwon Hyok claims to have watched one family of 2 parents, a son and a daughter die from suffocating gas, with the parents trying to save the children using mouth-to-mouth resuscitation for as long as they had the strength. 4 Poison laboratory of the Soviets The Poison laboratory of the Soviet secret services, also known as Laboratory 1, Laboratory 12 and “The Chamber”, was a covert poison research and development facility of the Soviet secret police agencies. The Soviets tested a number of deadly poisons on prisoners from the Gulag (“enemies of the people”), including mustard gas, ricin, digitoxin and many others. The goal of the experiments was to find a tasteless, odorless chemical that could not be detected post mortem. Candidate poisons were given to the victims, with a meal or drink, as “medication”. Finally, a preparation with the desired properties called C-2 was developed. According to witness testimonies, the victim changed physically, became shorter, weakened quickly, became calm and silent and died within fifteen minutes. Mairanovsky brought to the laboratory people of varied physical condition and ages in order to have a more complete picture about the action of each poison.

In addition to human experimentation, Mairanovsky personally executed people with poisons, under the supervision of Pavel Sudoplatov. 3 The Tuskegee Syphilis Study The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male was a clinical study, conducted between 1932 and 1972 in Tuskegee, Alabama, in which 399 (plus 201 control group without syphilis) poor — and mostly illiterate — African American sharecroppers were denied treatment for Syphilis. This study became notorious because it was conducted without due care to its subjects, and led to major changes in how patients are protected in clinical studies. Individuals enrolled in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study did not give informed consent and were not informed of their diagnosis; instead they were told they had “bad blood” and could receive free medical treatment, rides to the clinic, meals and burial insurance in case of death in return for participating. In 1932, when the study started, standard treatments for syphilis were toxic, dangerous, and of questionable effectiveness. Part of the original goal of the study was to determine if patients were better off not being treated with these toxic remedies.

For many participants, treatment was intentionally denied. Many patients were lied to and given placebo treatments—in order to observe the fatal progression of the disease. By the end of the study, only 74 of the test subjects were still alive. Twenty-eight of the men had died directly of syphilis, 100 were dead of related complications, 40 of their wives had been infected, and 19 of their children had been born with congenital syphilis. 2 Unit 731 Unit 731 was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II. It was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes carried out by Japanese personnel. Some of the numerous atrocities committed by the commander Shiro Ishii and others under his command in Unit 731 include: vivisection of living people (including pregnant women who were impregnated by the doctors), prisoners had limbs amputated and reattached to other parts of their body, some prisoners had parts of their bodies frozen and thawed to study the resulting untreated gangrene.

Humans were also used as living test cases for grenades and flame throwers. Prisoners were injected with strains of diseases, disguised as vaccinations, to study their effects. To study the effects of untreated venereal diseases, male and female prisoners were deliberately infected with syphilis and gonorrhea via rape, then studied. A complete list of these horrors can be found here . Having been granted immunity by the American Occupation Authorities at the end of the war, Ishii never spent any time in jail for his crimes and died at the age of 67 of throat cancer. 1 Nazi Experiments Nazi human experimentation was medical experimentation on large numbers of people by the German Nazi regime in its concentration camps during World War II. At Auschwitz, under the direction of Dr. Eduard Wirths, selected inmates were subjected to various experiments which were supposedly designed to help German military personnel in combat situations, to aid in the recovery of military personnel that had been injured, and to advance the racial ideology backed by the Third Reich. Experiments on twin children in concentration camps were created to show the similarities and differences in the genetics and eugenics of twins, as well as to see if the human body can be unnaturally manipulated. The central leader of the experiments was Dr.

Josef Mengele, who performed experiments on over 1,500 sets of imprisoned twins, of which fewer than 200 individuals survived the studies. Dr. Mengele organized the testing of genetics in twins. The twins were arranged by age and sex and kept in barracks in between the test, which ranged from the injection of different chemicals into the eyes of the twins to see if it would change their colors to literally sewing the twins together in hopes of creating conjoined twins. In 1942 the Luftwaffe conducted experiments to learn how to treat hypothermia. One study forced subjects to endure a tank of ice water for up to three hours (see image above). Another study placed prisoners naked in the open for several hours with temperatures below freezing. The experimenters assessed different ways of rewarming survivors. From about July 1942 to about September 1943, experiments to investigate the effectiveness of sulfonamide, a synthetic antimicrobial agent, were conducted at Ravensbrück. Wounds inflicted on the subjects were infected with bacteria such as Streptococcus, gas gangrene, and tetanus.

Circulation of blood was interrupted by tying off blood vessels at both ends of the wound to create a condition similar to that of a battlefield wound. Infection was aggravated by forcing wood shavings and ground glass into the wounds. The infection was treated with sulfonamide and other drugs to determine their effectiveness. This article is licensed under the GFDL because it contains text from Wikipedia. LiveLeak.com - Unit 731 Browse Channels Unit 731 Unit 731 (731 部隊 Nana-san-ichi butai?) was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II. It was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes carried out by Japanese personnel. Unit 731 was the code name (tsūshōgō) of an Imperial Japanese Army unit officially known as the Kempeitai Political Department and Epidemic Prevention Research Laboratory. It was initially set up under the Kempeitai military police of the Empire of Japan to develop weapons of mass destruction for potential use against Chinese, and possibly Soviet forces.

Unit 731 was based at the Pingfang district of Harbin, the largest city in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (now Northeast China). Shiro Ishii, commander of Unit 731 Mo Documentary on Human Experiments | Unit 731 | Hirohito | WWII Japanese Torture - YouTube Documentary on Human Experiments | Unit 731 | Hirohito | WWII Japanese Torture Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Apr 10, 2016 A look into the covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) of World War II. It was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes carried out by Japan.

Unit 731 was based at the Pingfang district of Harbin, the largest city in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (now Northeast China). Category rss Try what America did to Japan, Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki SeanQ38 We destroyed a country that attacked us first and when they were losing badly we offered an unconditional surrender and they refused so thats war dummy. Yet you find a way to compare this. Im sure your country has been crushed by another country or a tyrant abuses the people. (Abuses You) Ren Rin95 Try what America did to Japan, Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bill The Japs brought it on themselves steamknife Yes, that’s very true. Dracu, You’re right, the USA has innocent blood on her hands, but they bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki more out of arrogance, selfishness and cowardliness rather than a sadistic and inhuman pleasure like that of Unit 731. Anonymous They were tired of fighting a war in which there were over 50,000,000 people killed. The Japanese Imperial Army was quite vocal in its desire to fight till the bitter end.

The allies had already experienced that type of fight in Germany. The Japanese demonstrated their intent by use of Kamikaze fighters. This type of warfare was both frightening and perplexing to the Allies. How do you defeat such an enemy? Even after Hiroshima, the Japanese warlords refused to surrender. Had you been alive at the time, you would have celebrated the end of the war with everyone else. Like everyone else you would have been expressed trepidation at the implications of such an awesome weapon. Do not impose 21st century values and thinking on the reality of the 1940s. We can never know the horror of that terrible time….the worst 6 years in human history. SeanQ38 “cowardliness” ? The war was won without needing the nukes. Yet you say cowardliness. Such ignorance in you. It was used to test it and that was mean but to say cowardliness shows your ignorance and lack of maturity. Attack a country you better win otherwise take your death and accept it. They started it and we ended it for 2 evil empires at the same time.

Dracu, You’re right, the USA has innocent blood on her hands, but they bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki more out of arrogance, selfishness and cowardliness rather than a sadistic and inhuman pleasure like that of Unit 731. DarfurNagasakiLeipzig Pearl harbor was an military base, Hiroshima an Nagasaki was not. Why does always americans compare those two insidents. They could have nuke some other places then civilian citys…. Japan had alsow a big harbors in the pacifics. SeanQ38 An unprovoked attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor. They had no military bases or targets left to bomb. So we said surrender or face annihilation. They refused, so Bombs away. How is it fools compare this to be anything but war. Japan was told to surrender 3 times or be obliterated. Tokyo was fire bombed well before the nukes fell. More people died in Tokyo then both cities hit with nukes combined. Thats when the final surrender note was passed and rejected. They got what they deserved. Better yet they demanded it. Chris Ryan Generally a good documentary on a subject that gets far less attention than it deserves.

Love the little bit or propaganda they slip in at the end there to prepare ya’ll for the Iraq war. But ya, still glaring hypocrisy as Ren Rin95 points out. The “Japs” didn’t exactly bring it upon themselves. First off, the american government goaded the japanese into war (see The Mcullom memo). Japan was aggressive and evil, but well, so was the US government (they just had to manipulate their peasantry a different way). 2nd in popular culture the general narrative is that the US gave Japan the chance to surrender before using the A bombs. That’s not exactly true. Japan put out surrender feelers, only wanting to keep the emperor in power instead of the unconditional surrender demanded by the US. The US responded by changing the wording to “unconditional surrender of the armed forces” which either emboldened the pro-war members of the Japanese high command, or confused those on the fence. Surrender feelers were sent out again, the japanese simply requesting the emperor stay in power. They were rebuffed, because well, the US gov’ment had this new toy and they wanted to see if it’d work. You can be damn sure a lot of rich politicians rejoiced those 2 days.

All they had to do, was clearly state “unconditional surrender of everyone but the emperor”, whom of course MacArthur kept in power anyways… The reality is that no governments hands are clean, they all murder and have at some point in the recent past tested biological, radioactive and chemical weapons on other people, and even their own. Danielmcdermott3 “The reality is that no governments hands are clean, they all murder and have at some point in the recent past tested biological, radioactive and chemical weapons on other people, and even their own.” Well no shit Chris. But sometimes in this life one has to pick the lesser of two evils, and I for one would pick the victors of WW2 over the losers. I shudder to think what the world would look like under the third Reich or the Japanese empire. No claims that the Allies were saints (Stalin was a monster), as you seem to imply, but they (UK + USA) never got around to organised genocide on a industrial scale like the Axis powers did.. Feel free to moan and complain about America, but this was one war where the US actually made a stand for the good of humanity.

Weigh up the balance Chris… you sound like a wannabe Chomsky ( and I am a fan). Danielmcdermott3 “The reality is that no governments hands are clean, they all murder and have at some point in the recent past tested biological, radioactive and chemical weapons on other people, and even their own.” Well no shit Chris. But sometimes in this life one has to pick the lesser of two evils, and I for one would pick the victors of WW2 over the losers. I shudder to think what the world would look like under the third Reich or the Japanese empire. No claims that the Allies were saints (Stalin was a monster), as you seem to imply, but they (UK + USA) never got around to organised genocide on a industrial scale like the Axis powers did.. Feel free to moan and complain about America, but this was one war where the US actually made a stand for the good of humanity. Weigh up the balance Chris… you sound like a wannabe Chomsky ( and I am a fan).

Danielmcdermott3 “The reality is that no governments hands are clean, they all murder and have at some point in the recent past tested biological, radioactive and chemical weapons on other people, and even their own.” Well no shit Chris. But sometimes in this life one has to pick the lesser of two evils, and I for one would pick the victors of WW2 over the losers. I shudder to think what the world would look like under the third Reich or the Japanese empire. No claims that the Allies were saints (Stalin was a monster), as you seem to imply, but they (UK + USA) never got around to organised genocide on a industrial scale like the Axis powers did.. Feel free to moan and complain about America, but this was one war where the US actually made a stand for the good of humanity. Weigh up the balance Chris… you sound like a wannabe Chomsky ( and I am a fan). Chris Ryan Wow, and furthermore, if you hateful people out there think that those bombed in Nagasaki or Hiroshima had anything to do with the war your wrong.

Something like 90% of those killed in those bombings were civilians who certainly had no say in whether japan went to war, and even though manipulated and propagandized themselves, probably still preferred peace and harmony over war and murder. All the firebombings of Germany and Japan were thinly veiled acts of revenge taken out on innocent people. They served to only bring those innocents closer into the embrace of their evil governments. The general lie is that the bombings were to target workers and their homes but clearly it wasn’t effective and the allies knew it. They just kept on ordering bombings though… because that’s what murderers love to do. Gray26961 maybe the natural disasters hitting japan is gods way of paying them back Angela Are you being facetious? Anonymous After watching all the inhuman atrocities in this documentary, you come up with that? Wow, you missed the whole fucking point, didn’t you? Eye for an eye isn’t appropriate when civilians are concerned. Grow up. NinjaTurtle Maybe 9/11 was Gods way of paying the Americans back for working closely with the Japanese who did these things, and even covering it up. Maybe, almost certainly, you are talking out of your ass and should stop.

SeanQ38 If you dont like his comment thats fine but you go on to insult all Americans with your reply showing your age or your ignorance. You do realize we were enemies in the 30’s. Yet you some how say we helped Japan. We did help Japan with a nuclear bomb and then studied their survivors. To bad we cant study your stupidity. Its one of a kind. Alan James I hate that people are so fucking stupid that they draw conclusions like this… Gray26961 maybe the natural disasters hitting japan is gods way of paying them back Chrystl Zellweger hi…did u know? please help me to share this information PLEASE ! Adrian Gheorghe LOl, this is bad, but it seems kind of acceptable. Did they not find anthrax, medicine and influenza vaccine?? I dont know if this was the camp, or the german ones, but they had developed a inefficient influneza vaccine that was later perfected and save millions. O no i was wrong that was during 1920. Sorry if you have been offended. Adrian Gheorghe ANd this is nothing compared to what the Chinese did to their own country.

Josephus52 What does that have to do with ANYTHING? In what way is this relevant to the subject matter of the documentary? Are you arguing that the barbaric crimes of Unit 731 weren’t so bad because, hell, look at what the Chinese have done to each other at times? Are you deliberately dismissing the importance of these events? Ajax I was just shocked to see what people are capable of. This stuff turned my stomach. Who’s falt it is is irrelevant. These crimes still happen in todays world. The world is irreversibly sick. DaftAida We have been traumatised by such atrocities due to the skillful manipulation of our perceptions. Discovered common links for all elite military families and throughout the military matrix worldwide as having been groomed for purpose since birth by way of trauma-sex abuse. Elite military corps have always been led and staffed by psychopathic sodomites/pederasts. Having been brutalised into regimented, psychotic behaviours, they are then unleashed in all their hatred upon a largely unsuspecting public. No one ruler invades another without the tacit agreement of the group consensus; that being headed by UN, CoL, DC,VatCity, Tel Aviv.

Oh and of course, the US Corp negotiated with Jap Inc for experiments on US PoW’s in Jap captivity. Mainly radiation. And the Japs were a convenient patsy for the nuclear party kick off as the fake war on ‘terrorism’ was to kick start WW3. Today, psychopathy and sodomy is prerequisite to surving military life and if anyone wants to understand what that might be like: The Pink Swastika makes an enlightening read. Anyway, point being that this behaviour does not represent ‘man’s inhumanity to man’: it does not represent our nature. It took them thousands of years, these Warrior tribes, to get the people to fight on command or kill others of their kind. And we are all of our kind. We are seeing The Psychopathic Sodomite Elite’s hatred, jealousy, carnage and butchery of woman, nature, man. It was never any different, not since the dawn of their civilisation. SeanQ38 Still going and hoping someone will read your comments. You got nobody to talk to obviously. Bad US,, bad US,, me know all. Im an insider with inside knowledge. Hahaha I bet you think that.

Lol DaftAida Unit 731 | Military Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Shiro Ishii , commander of Unit 731 In 1932, General Shirō Ishii (石井四郎 Ishii Shirō), chief medical officer of the Japanese Army and protégé of Army Minister Sadao Araki was placed in command of the Army Epidemic Prevention Research Laboratory. Ishii organized a secret research group, the "Tōgō Unit", for various chemical and biological experimentation in Manchuria. Ishii had proposed the creation of a Japanese biological and chemical research unit in 1930, after a two-year study trip abroad, on the grounds that Western powers were developing their own programs. One of Ishii's main supporters inside the army was Colonel Chikahiko Koizumi , who later became Japan's Health Minister from 1941 to 1945.

Koizumi had joined a secret poison gas research committee in 1915, during World War I , when he and other Japanese army officers were impressed by the successful German use of chlorine gas at the second battle of Ypres , where the Allies suffered 15,000 casualties as a result of the chemical attack. [3] Unit Tōgō was implemented in the Zhongma Fortress , a prison/experimentation camp in Beiyinhe, a village Script error south of Harbin on the South Manchurian Railway . A jailbreak in autumn 1934 and later explosion (believed to be an attack) in 1935 led Ishii to shut down Zhongma Fortress. He received the authorization to move to Pingfang, approximately Script error south of Harbin, to set up a new and much larger facility. [1] In 1936, Hirohito authorized, by imperial decree, the expansion of this unit and its integration into the Kwantung Army as the Epidemic Prevention Department. [2] It was divided at the same time into the "Ishii Unit" and "Wakamatsu Unit" with a base in Hsinking .

From August 1940, all these units were known collectively as the "Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the Kwantung Army (関東軍防疫給水部本部)" [3] or "Unit 731" (満州第731部隊) for short. Activities e The ruins of a boiler building A special project code-named Maruta used human beings for experiments. Test subjects were gathered from the surrounding population and were sometimes referred to euphemistically as "logs" (丸太, maruta ? )Script error This term originated as a joke on the part of the staff because the official cover story for the facility given to the local authorities was that it was a lumber mill.

In an account by a man who worked as a "junior uniformed civilian employee" of the Japanese Army in Unit 731, the term Maruta came from German, meaning medical experiment, used in such contexts as, "How many logs fell?" [1] The test subjects were selected to give a wide cross-section of the population and included common criminals, captured bandits and anti-Japanese partisans, political prisoners, and also people rounded up by the Kempeitai for alleged "suspicious activities". They included infants, the elderly, and pregnant women. Vivisection Edit Prisoners of war [2] were subjected to vivisection without anesthesia. [3] Vivisections were performed on prisoners after infecting them with various diseases. Scientists performed invasive surgery on prisoners, removing organs to study the effects of disease on the human body. These were conducted while the patients were alive because it was feared that the decomposition process would affect the results. [4] The infected and vivisected prisoners included men, women, children, and infants. [5] Prisoners had limbs amputated in order to study blood loss. Those limbs that were removed were sometimes re-attached to the opposite sides of the body.

Some prisoners' limbs were frozen and amputated, while others had limbs frozen then thawed to study the effects of the resultant untreated gangrene and rotting. Some prisoners had their stomachs surgically removed and the esophagus reattached to the intestines . Parts of the brain, lungs , liver, etc. were removed from some prisoners. [3] [6] In 2007, the Japanese army surgeon Ken Yuasa testified to the Japan Times that, "I was afraid during my first vivisection, but the second time around, it was much easier. By the third time, I was willing to do it." He believes at least 1,000 people, including surgeons, were involved in vivisections over mainland China. [7] Germ warfare attacks Edit Prisoners were injected with inoculations of disease, disguised as vaccinations , to study their effects. To study the effects of untreated venereal diseases , male and female prisoners were deliberately infected, often by rape, with syphilis and gonorrhea , then studied. Plague fleas, infected clothing, and infected supplies encased in bombs were dropped on various targets.

The resulting cholera, anthrax, and plague were estimated to have killed around and possibly more than 400,000 Chinese civilians. [8] Tularemia was tested on Chinese civilians. [9] Unit 731 and its affiliated units (Unit 1644 and Unit 100 among others) were involved in research, development, and experimental deployment of epidemic-creating biowarfare weapons in assaults against the Chinese populace (both civilian and military) throughout World War II. Plague-infested fleas, bred in the laboratories of Unit 731 and Unit 1644, were spread by low-flying airplanes upon Chinese cities, coastal Ningbo in 1940, and Changde , Hunan Province, in 1941. This military aerial spraying killed thousands of people with bubonic plague epidemics. [10] Weapons testing Edit Human targets were used to test grenades positioned at various distances and in different positions. Flame throwers were tested on humans. Humans were tied to stakes and used as targets to test germ-releasing bombs , chemical weapons , and explosive bombs .

[11] [12] Other experiments Edit In other tests, subjects were deprived of food and water to determine the length of time until death; placed into high-pressure chambers until death; experimented upon to determine the relationship between temperature, burns, and human survival; placed into centrifuges and spun until death; injected with animal blood; exposed to lethal doses of x-rays ; subjected to various chemical weapons inside gas chambers; injected with sea water to determine if it could be a substitute for saline ; and burned or prematurely buried alive. [13] Biological warfare Edit An unidentified victim of Unit 731 human experimentation. Japanese scientists performed tests on prisoners with plague, cholera, smallpox, botulism , and other diseases. [14] This research led to the development of the defoliation bacilli bomb and the flea bomb used to spread the bubonic plague. [15] Some of these bombs were designed with ceramic ( porcelain ) shells, an idea proposed by Ishii in 1938.

These bombs enabled Japanese soldiers to launch biological attacks, infecting agriculture, reservoirs, wells, and other areas with anthrax, plague-carrier fleas, typhoid, dysentery, cholera, and other deadly pathogens. During biological bomb experiments, scientists dressed in protective suits would examine the dying victims. Infected food supplies and clothing were dropped by airplane into areas of China not occupied by Japanese forces. In addition, poisoned food and candies were given out to unsuspecting victims, and the results examined. In 2002, Changde , China, site of the flea spraying attack, held an "International Symposium on the Crimes of Bacteriological Warfare" which estimated that at least 580,000 people died as a result of the attack. [16] The historian Sheldon Harris claims that 200,000 died. [17] In addition to Chinese casualties, 1,700 Japanese in Chekiang were killed by their own biological weapons while attempting to unleash the biological agent, which indicates serious issues with distribution.

[18] Known unit members Edit Unit 731 was divided into eight divisions: Division 1: Research on bubonic plague, cholera, anthrax, typhoid and tuberculosis using live human subjects. For this purpose, a prison was constructed to contain around three to four hundred people. Division 2: Research for biological weapons used in the field, in particular the production of devices to spread germs and parasites. Division 3: Production of shells containing biological agents. Stationed in Harbin. Division 4: Production of other miscellaneous agents. Division 5: Training of personnel. Divisions 6–8: Equipment, medical and administrative units. Facilities Edit One of the buildings is open to visitors The Unit 731 complex covered six square kilometers and consisted of more than 150 buildings. The design of the facilities made them hard to destroy by bombing. The complex contained various factories. It had around 4,500 containers to be used to raise fleas , six cauldrons to produce various chemicals, and around 1,800 containers to produce biological agents. Approximately 30 kg of bubonic plague bacteria could be produced in several days.

Some of Unit 731's satellite facilities are in use by various Chinese industrial concerns. A portion has been preserved and is open to visitors as a War Crimes Museum. Tokyo Edit A medical school and research facility belonging to Unit 731 operated in the Shinjuku District of Tokyo during World War II. In 2006, Toyo Ishii—a nurse who worked at the school during the war—revealed that she had helped bury bodies and pieces of bodies on the school's grounds shortly after Japan's surrender in 1945. In response, in February 2011 the Ministry of Health began to excavate the site. [19] China requested DNA samples from any human remains discovered at the site. The Japanese government—which has never officially acknowledged the existence of Unit 731—rejected the request. [20] Canton Edit The related Unit 8604 was operated by the Japanese Southern China Area Army and stationed at Canton (Guangzhou). This installation conducted human experimentation in food and water deprivation as well as water-borne typhus.

According to postwar testimony, this facility served as the main rat breeding farm for the medical units to provide them with bubonic plague vectors for experiments. [21] Related units Unit 731 was part of the Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department which dealt with contagious disease and water supply generally. Mukden POW camp Edit According to Maj. Robert Peaty , of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, who was the senior British officer at Mukden, a prisoner-of-war camp 350 miles from Pingfan, doctors from Unit 731 administered the regular injections of infectious diseases, disguised as harmless vaccinations, which eventually killed 186 Americans . Surrender and immunity Edit Information sign at the site today. Operations and experiments continued until the end of the war. Ishii had wanted to use biological weapons in the Pacific conflict since May 1944, but his attempts were repeatedly snubbed. Destruction of evidence Edit With the Russian invasion of Manchukuo and Mengjiang in August 1945, the unit had to abandon their work in haste. The members and their families fled to Japan.

Ishii ordered every member of the group "to take the secret to the grave", threatening to find them if they failed, and prohibiting any of them from going into public work back in Japan. Potassium cyanide vials were issued for use in the event that the remaining personnel were captured. Skeleton crews of Ishii's Japanese troops blew the compound up in the final days of the war to destroy evidence of their activities, but most were so well constructed that they survived somewhat intact. American grant of immunity Edit After Imperial Japan surrendered to the Allies in 1945, Douglas MacArthur became the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers , rebuilding Japan during the Allied occupation . MacArthur secretly granted immunity to the physicians of Unit 731, including their leader, in exchange for providing America, but not the other wartime allies, with their research on biological warfare . [22] American occupation authorities monitored the activities of former unit members, including reading and censoring their mail. [23] The U.S. believed that the research data was valuable. The U.S. did not want other nations, particularly the Soviet Union, to acquire data on biological weapons .

[24] The Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal heard only one reference to Japanese experiments with "poisonous serums" on Chinese civilians. This took place in August 1946 and was instigated by David Sutton, assistant to the Chinese prosecutor. The Japanese defense counselor argued that the claim was vague and uncorroborated and it was dismissed by the tribunal president, Sir William Webb , for lack of evidence. The subject was not pursued further by Sutton, who was likely unaware of Unit 731's activities. His reference to it at the trial is believed to have been accidental. Separate Soviet trials Edit Although publicly silent on the issue at the Tokyo Trials, the Soviet Union pursued the case and prosecuted twelve top military leaders and scientists from Unit 731 and its affiliated biological-war prisons Unit 1644 in Nanjing, and Unit 100 in Changchun, in the Khabarovsk War Crime Trials . Included among those prosecuted for war crimes including germ warfare was General Otozō Yamada , the commander-in-chief of the million-man Kwantung Army occupying Manchuria. The trial of those captured Japanese perpetrators was held in Khabarovsk in December 1949.

A lengthy partial transcript of the trial proceedings was published in different languages the following year by a Moscow foreign languages press, including an English language edition. [25] The lead prosecuting attorney at the Khabarovsk trial was Lev Smirnov , who had been one of the top Soviet prosecutors at the Nuremberg Trials . The Japanese doctors and army commanders who had perpetrated the Unit 731 experiments received sentences from the Khabarovsk court ranging from two to 25 years in a Siberian labor camp. The Americans refused to acknowledge the trials, branding them communist propaganda. [26] After World War II, the Soviet Union built a biological weapons facility in Sverdlovsk using documentation captured from Unit 731 in Manchuria. [27] After World War II Edit As above, under the American occupation the members of Unit 731 and other experimental units were allowed to go free. One graduate of Unit 1644 , Masami Kitaoka, continued to do experiments on unwilling Japanese subjects from 1947 to 1956 while working for the National Institute of Health Sciences. He infected prisoners with rickettsia and mental health patients with typhus.

[28] Post-Occupation Japanese media coverage and debate Edit Japanese discussions of Unit 731's activity began in the 1950s, after the end of the American occupation of Japan . In 1952, human experiments carried out in Nagoya City Pediatric Hospital, which resulted in one death, were publicly tied to former members of Unit 731. [29] Later in that decade, journalists suspected that the murders attributed by the government to Sadamichi Hirasawa were actually carried out by members of Unit 731. In 1958, Japanese author Shusaku Endo published the book The Sea and Poison about human experimentation, which is thought to have been based on a real incident. The author Morimura Seiichi published the book The Devil's Gluttony (悪魔の飽食) in 1981, followed by The Devil's Gluttony: A Sequel in 1983.

This purported to reveal the "true" operations of Unit 731, but actually confused them with that of Unit 100 , and falsely used unrelated photos attributing them to Unit 731, which raised questions about its accuracy. [30] [31] Also in 1981 appeared the first direct testimony of human vivisection in China, by Ken Yuasa . Since then many more in-depth testimonies have appeared in Japanese. The 2001 documentary Japanese Devils was composed largely of interviews with 14 members of Unit 731 who had been taken as prisoners by China and later released. [32] Official government response in Japan See also: List of war apology statements issued by Japan Since the end of the US Occupation, the Japanese government has repeatedly apologized for its prewar behavior in general, but specific apologies and indemnities are determined on the basis of bilateral determination that crimes occurred, which requires a high standard of evidence. Unit 731 presents a special problem, since unlike Nazi human experimentation which is extremely well documented, the activities of Unit 731 are known only from the testimonies of former unit members, and testimony cannot be employed to determine indemnity in this way.

Japanese history textbooks usually contain references to Unit 731, but do not go into detail about allegations, in accordance with this principle. [33] [34] Saburo Ienaga 's New History of Japan included a detailed description, based on officers' testimony. The Ministry for Education attempted to remove this passage from his textbook before it was taught in public schools, on the basis that the testimony was insufficient. The Supreme Court of Japan ruled in 1997 that the testimony was indeed sufficient and that requiring it to be removed was an illegal violation of freedom of speech . [35] In 1997, the international lawyer Kōnen Tsuchiya filed a class action suit against the Japanese government demanding reparations for the actions of Unit 731, using evidence filed by Rikkyo University professor Makoto Ueda. All court levels found that the suit was baseless. No findings of fact were made about the existence of human experimentation, but the decision of the court was that reparations are determined by international treaties and not by local court cases.

In October 2003, the Prime Minister of Japan responded to an inquiry from a member of the House of Representatives of Japan stating that, while the current Japanese government does not possess any records related to Unit 731, they recognize the gravity of the matter and will publicize any records that are located in the future. [36] Abroad Edit The Chinese film Men Behind the Sun , directed by Tun Fei Mou in 1988, is a graphic film about the atrocities committed by Unit 731, as is the Russian film Philosophy of a Knife , directed by Andrey Iskanov and released in 2008. James T. Hong produced a 2007 documentary about Unit 731 told from the Chinese and Japanese sides called 731: Two Versions of Hell. [37] Bruce Dickinson 's 1994 CD-single Tears of the Dragon contains a song entitled "The Breeding House" describing the atrocities committed by Unit 731 and the immunity granted by the Americans to the physicians of the Unit.

American thrash metal band Slayer 's 2009 album World Painted Blood contains a song entitled "Unit 731" describing the events and atrocities that occurred at Unit 731. The X-Files episode " 731 " was a reference to Unit 731, in which former members secretly continue their experiments on humans under control of a covert U.S. government agency. ReGenesis episode "Let it burn" (Season 3, episode 9) mentions Unit 731 after it was discovered outbreaks of anthrax and glanders was from World War 2 Japan. See also

Question: What was the name of the notorious biological research unit of the Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and WWII?
Answer: Unit 731